Tuxedo

I'm surprised no one has posted about this yet (maybe I'm missing it). But, as some of you may have heard, Mayer Hawthorne and Seattle producer Jake One, who is one of my favorite hip-hop producers in the game right now, teamed together to form a group called Tuxedo. They released a free EP, and it's FANTASTIC. Maybe my favorite Mayer project yet:

As an avid fonkster, I'm not too keen on this sound just yet. It sounds too closely aligned with this whole pop-funk movement of the moment. I need to give it a proper listen before I pass judgment though, just talking first impressionz.